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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






2. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






3. Wide Range Achievement Test






4. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






5. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






6. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






7. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






8. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






9. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






10. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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11. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






12. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






13. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






14. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






15. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






16. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






17. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






18. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






19. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






21. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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22. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






23. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






24. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






25. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






26. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






27. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






28. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






29. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






30. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






31. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






32. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






33. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






34. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






35. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






36. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






37. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






38. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






39. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






40. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






41. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






42. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






43. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






44. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






45. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






46. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






47. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






48. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






50. Final stable syllable

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